OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism

Often, when dealing with the minutiae of text-critical research, my pragmatic friends ask me if it really matters. Normally, I would delve i...

I just received word that I was awarded the Doctoral Researcher Elite Scholarship for studies at the University of Birmingham in the United...

The concept of biblical authors using sources (particularly other biblical sources) is disconcerting to some people. This is not an altogeth...

My wife and I read an interesting note about the tiqqune sopherim ("emendations of the scribes") in my wife's archaeological ...

My wife and I have a family tradition of reading Proverbs 31 at dinner on Friday nights. Today I read from the New English Bible for the fir...

I just found an old series of blog posts that are quite interesting about Benjamin Kennicott and his collation of Hebrew variants here . The...

I was recently helping a friend of mine translate Isaiah 53:5, and came across the phrase וּבַחֲבֻרָתוֹ נִרְפָּא־לָנוּ "and by his str...